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Comment: Ive been on everything and have tried each mg/dosage-level (i.e. started in 9th grade: adderall 5mg/1xday to adderall 30mg/4xday. Every kind of adderall. Same goes for ritalin. Havent tried Focalin. Tried Adderall complemented with ... ah I just totally lost interest and started to click off this page, but I digress. I will try to finish this.
Anyhow...
Vyvanse is this next=gen drug, its basica
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Comment:Ive been on everything and have tried each mg/dosage-level (i.e. started in 9th grade: adderall 5mg/1xday to adderall 30mg/4xday. Every kind of adderall. Same goes for ritalin. Havent tried Focalin. Tried Adderall complemented with ... ah I just totally lost interest and started to click off this page, but I digress. I will try to finish this.
Anyhow...
Vyvanse is this next=gen drug, its basically like Adderall. Generic Adderall, though. If you can afford Adderall (BRAND), take the brand. Most definitely. They say its got the same main ingredient" , but the generic is just not as good. I dont know really how to explain it. More prone to becoming dependent with generic adderall than BRAND. Ive had doctor here, one state, a doctor there, in another state. Doctor here, doctor there... only one of them (works for the state-- bossman of some sort, so to speak), only one that agrees/relates to my opinion on adderall brand vs. generic.
Wait a minute....
This is vyvanse.
Aw shoot. My apologies... as I digressed once again.
Pfft.
This may seem humorous.
I've got only 919 characters remaining.
Better get to the point about VYVANSE.
OK:
Here's the deal...
I take Vyvanse (70mg/1xday).
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I take Adderall (30mg/1xday).
I would rather them (Aetna) just "CLEAR" me to be prescribed:
Vyvanse (70mg/2xday). Ahem. Yes. Twice a day. Oooo. (cue the crickets chirping).
I even filed an appeal or whatever to CVS, to see if the pharmacist there would help me out, said they need to have a written example of some doctor prescribing this dosage-level before to a patient... and I'm thinking to myself (as I am reading the CVS printed out letter they mailed to me)... THAT COULD BE ME! I could be the first subject--err, patient.
My cousin is a leader in ADD material. Big time doctor. Never met the guy personally. We trade emails.
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Comment: I've been on VyVanse (60mg) for 5 months now. I have been able to compare the medication in 2 different scenarios during this time. For 4 of the months, I was working 40 hours a week landscaping. Prior to the meds, I had constant racing thoughts and never seemed to be able to focus on something long enough to finish it. The meds stopped the racing thoughts and seemed to "zone me in&qu
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Comment:I've been on VyVanse (60mg) for 5 months now. I have been able to compare the medication in 2 different scenarios during this time. For 4 of the months, I was working 40 hours a week landscaping. Prior to the meds, I had constant racing thoughts and never seemed to be able to focus on something long enough to finish it. The meds stopped the racing thoughts and seemed to "zone me in" on the task at hand. That was fine when I was working and physically exhausted at the end of the day.
Now I am back in school. My class schedule ranges from 9am-7pm some days and doing extra work until midnight or later. I wake up around 8am and take the medication, but feel that it looses its "zoning" effect by 3 or 4pm. I feel like I am gradually building a tolerance to it (I also have a history of drug addiction, mainly thc and xanax though). At this point in time, the meds peak then wear off while I still have half of my day to finish out.
I am now experiencing insomnia (I'm writing this at 4am). There are days that I don't take a dose and the effect usually ends up in extreme exhaustion. I didn't take it over the weekend and sleep from Sat. noon until Monday 9am - waking occasionally to have a meal.
I don't know if it's due to the fact that I am no longer working a physically exhausting job that would put me to sleep at 1030pm every night, but the insomnia is starting to interfere with my daily routine.
I am seeing a doctor tomorrow to see if he will put me on adderall 10mg 3x daily, or 20mg 2x daily. I would much rather peak and crash throughout the day at my own descretion, knowing that I can get a good night's rest.Hide Full Comment

Comment: The concept of the drug was interesting, it becomes a stimulant only after oral ingestion. Thinking it would work well, stop the "LOOK" at my pharmacy, and be useful were soon found to be false for my system. It felt like ritalin XR, kept me awake but not helping th ADD.

Comment:The concept of the drug was interesting, it becomes a stimulant only after oral ingestion. Thinking it would work well, stop the "LOOK" at my pharmacy, and be useful were soon found to be false for my system. It felt like ritalin XR, kept me awake but not helping th ADD. Hide Full Comment

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